Pictures are a little small. Are they supposed to be thumbnails, they just take me to photobucket home page? Anyway, to start you off. 1. Notocactus. 2. Haworthia. 3. Pachypodium. 4. Some kind of Crassula relative :)

Lyfia, all great points you brought up, it really helps me plan and think. Honestly we have no set time frame for having this project done, since we have an up and running kitchen in the other part of the house and we are working on the new kitchen as time allows. I spent part of this week filling every little brad hole with putty and sanding everything. This weekend we should get a primer on and if dry time allows the walls and ceilings painted. I think we are at the point we are going to put in the cabinet order too. We still have the floor to put down, sand and seal. Tile the whole range wall, put up shelves. The wiring is done, we still need to run plumbing .. which means going under the house in the Summer .. YIKES! We live in copperhead country, not a fun prospect. Last year my DH got bit, we were very fortunate it was a 'dry bite' though! Valinsv, thanks for the help and suggestions, they are very helpful! Les, I love those 50's dinette chairs and if I was going to do a booth, I'd be all over them. I honestly don't think with a very rustic table I'd be happy with them ... even though they look super cushy to sit on. :) If I do go with these chairs I'd have seat pads made for them. I still haven't put my chair order in, I was all ready to go, now I'm hemming and hawing over details again. Part of me wants to go this way, part can really see everyone sacked out in a comfy booth and chairs playing board games and drinking coco. I know that everyone brought up very valid reasons to stay away from a booth, like people being inconvenienced by having to move to let the inside people out, etc. The thing is though we don't have those types of sit down and eat parties where I see it being a problem. When we entertain adults it's normally in a relaxed, casual setting outside on the deck or around the pool area, where we have large tables in each area. When it's just the five of us here, there would be plenty of seating that we could all spread out. I'm lucky that my girls really do get along, there is not alot of she's looking at me, touching me, breathing my air problems. *LOL* I grew up with 3 siblings, I know how that goes, we spent a lot of time bickering. ;) When it's the kids and their friends having snacks, I don't see it being a problem where the kids would feel inconvenienced. So in short I'm still stuck, I think! *LOL* Sometimes I can see right away the path I want to follow, sometimes I start second guessing myself. *sigh* Normally my Husband will chime in with his feeling on the matter and we'll work it out in a way that we are both relatively happy .. this time he really doesn't seem to care, well other than wanting me to make a plan so we know how to finish the room. ;)

Beauties! I was like: ok, I'll get ONE wandering jew because everyone owns one but me. And then.. I love these colors... so why not get one each? :) They are only cuttings so won't take over the house. Yet.

s g I was not suggesting your plant being etiolated at all. Just growing conditions - for example, many keep gasteria in little less than full sunlight (gasterias and haworthias will grow well in less sunlight than most succulents). I can tell you keep them in plenty of sun, and there is nothing wrong that I could say about them. Here is a photo of G. lilliputana - doesn't seem to have fat leaves to me. But I could be wrong: I have only few gasterias and am not knowledgeable enough to ID. Here is one of them I am not sure about the name of: (I grow most of my succulents in full sun, but gasterias and haws in mostly morning sun):